ROUNDUP: OJR's Daloisio captures Harrier title

POTTSTOWN — Owen J. Roberts’ Steve Daloisio set the pace in Saturday morning’s 27th renewal of the Harrier Invitational at Pottstown High School.

The Wildcat junior posted a time of 17:23 to lead his OJR team to a second-place finish with 63 points. The Hill School won the race with 60 points.

Jack Zimmerman of OJR crossed third with a 17:49.

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Hill School’s Preston Tietjen led the Blues by finishing sixth with a 17:59. Teammate Nick Pearson finished eighth with an 18:23.

Nate Smith, crossed fourth with a 17:42, leading the Pottstown boys to a fourth-place finish with 87 points.

William Tennent won the girls varsity race with 22 points, followed by Oley Valey (49), Owen J. Roberts (97) and Reading (121).

The Hill girls did not field a full team, but the Blues’ Camille Gossett was the area’s highest finisher by crossing fifth with a time of 21.18.

With the Wildcats girls missing most of their top runners due to SATs, Natalie Burgos was their highest finisher at 16th (23:16).

Oley Valley’s Olivia Boyer won the girls varsity race with a 20:07.

Arcole’s David Kennedy won the middle school race (1.87 mile) with a 10:46. Allison Willingmyre, of Wilson, won the girls middle school race with an 11:44.

Steel City Invitational: Boyertown sophomore Emily Schumaker ran another terrific race, crossing second at 20:51 to lead her team to a fifth-place finish in a field of 10 schools at the Steel City Invitational in Coatesville.

Matt Ali led the Boyertown boys team to a ninth-place finish in a field of 12 schools, crossing 30th with a time of 18:59. Parker Vivian was right there with him at 31st (19:01). Dalton Meredith finished 43rd (19:20), Blake Durante was 53rd (19:45), Chris Miller was 63rd (19:59), Lance Kokonos was 64th (20:00), and Dylan Weiser was 68th (20:19).

COLLEGE CROSS COUNTRY

St. Clair Invitational: The Ursinus women finished seventh in the Jack Saint Clair Memorial Cross Country Championship at Belmont Plateau.

Five different players scored for Emmaus as it opened a 3-0 lead at the half. The Hornets held 12-3 and 4-1 leads in shots on goal and penalty corners, respectively, while goalie Makhelia MacDonald needed to make just three saves to record the shutout.

WOMEN’S FIELD HOCKEY

Johns Hopkins 3, Ursinus 1: The Blue Jays scored the final three goals of the game to deal the Bears a Centennial Conference loss.

Liane Tellier assisted on two of the three goals for Johns Hopkins (3-2, 6-5), which had a 2-1 lead at intermission and scored one with just under four minutes to go to put the game away. Ursinus (3-3, 5-5) got its lone goal from Samantha Macchio at 6:13, on an assist from Alex Shafi. In goal, Paige McElhenny had six saves on the afternoon.

BOYS SOCCER

Pottsgrove 2, Southern Lehigh 2: The Falcons got their scoring from Rushawn Larmond and Rammy Abbas as they played the Spartans all even in this non-league pairing.

Henderson 2, Owen J. Roberts 0: Rob Miller and Anthony Daniele scored in each half to lift Henderson past OJR in non-league play. Kyle Baker had a four-save day in goal for the Wildcats, who outshot Warriors by a 7-4 margin. Todd Morton turned away seven shots for the Warriors.

Great Valley 5, Phoenixville 0: The Patriots got goals from five different players as they rolled over the Phantoms in a non-league matchup.

MEN’S SOCCER

Johns Hopkins 5, Ursinus 0: Five different players scored for the Blue Jays as they handed the Bears a Centennial Conference loss.

Hopkins (3-1-1, 5-4-2 overall) had a 3-0 lead at the half en route to a 23-8 shot advantage. Kieran Keyser had seven saves in goal for Ursinus (1-4, 4-8).

MEN’S TENNIS

Ursinus 9, Lebanon Valley 0: The Bears swept all but one of the five singles matches in straight sets en route to a non-conference romp over the Flying Dutchmen.

Evan Stuchin, Tyler Arsenault, John Elbogen, Dalton Lynch and Mike Melchiorre didn’t break a sweat in winning for the Bears, while Dylan Marsh held on for a three-set victory at third singles. Stuchin and Marsh, Arsenault and Elbogen, and Lynch and Melchiorre teamed up to take all three doubles matches.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Bears break even: Ursinus split a pair of matches at Johns Hopkins University. It dropped a 3-0 decision to the homestanding Blue Jays (19-2, 4-1 Centennial) by scores of 25-13, 25-19 and 25-14. In the second match, Ursinus (7-11, 2-4 Centennial) turned the tables, sweeping Hood 3-0 by set scores of 25-19, 25-20 25-22.

In the opening match, Kristin Hanratty had a team-high 10 kills and Anahi McIntyre six. Gina Powers went for 17 assists, with Leah Masiello getting eight digs and Hanratty six.

Against Hood, McIntyre had 10 kills to lead both sides while Kayla McLeod got seven. Powers and Mara Berzins had six kills each, Powers had 22 assists and Hanratty four; defensively, Masiello had 19 digs as Hanratty added 10 digs and 2.5 blocks.